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A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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19 votes
A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.
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Billy Graham
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27 votes
Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
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Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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13 votes
Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.
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Aesop
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74 votes
Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck.
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Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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13 votes
I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.
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Rodney Dangerfield
Rodney Dangerfield books
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19 votes
I hate victims who respect their executioners.
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Jean-Paul Sartre
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12 votes
I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them.
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Herbert Henry Lehman
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16 votes
I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.
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D. H. Lawrence
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20 votes
In his private heart no man much respects himself.
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Mark Twain
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12 votes
Men are respectable only as they respect.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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7 votes
My life has been one long descent into respectability.
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Mandy Rice-Davies
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6 votes
No place in England where everyone can go is considered respectable.
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George Moore
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9 votes
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
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Albert Camus
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21 votes
Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability.
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Shelley Winters
Shelley Winters books
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9 votes
One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
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Edgar Watson Howe
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18 votes
Respect a man, he will do it the more.
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James Howell
James Howell books
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5 votes
Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
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Eldridge Cleaver
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18 votes
Respect for ones parents is the highest duty of civil life.
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Chinese Proverb
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22 votes
Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
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Laurence Sterne
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13 votes
Respect is love in plain clothes.
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Frankie Byrne
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17 votes
Respect starts with yourself.
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Proverb
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7 votes
Respect the burden.
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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12 votes
Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
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Sir John Herschel
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13 votes
The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.
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Oscar Wilde
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9 votes
The worst indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.
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Maggie Kuhn
Maggie Kuhn books
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16 votes
There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
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Henri Frederic Amiel
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83 votes
To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times.
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Henri Frederic Amiel
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66 votes
Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.
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Samuel Johnson
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14 votes
We owe respect to the living. To the dead we owe only truth.
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Voltaire
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4 votes
What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair.
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John Milton
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8 votes
Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?
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Confucius
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20 votes